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Catholicism without popery an essay to render the Church of England a means and a pattern of union to the Christian world.
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Hooke, John, 1655-1712.
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Wing C1497; ESTC R8878
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hath been imployed in this Controversie 'T is better to be Papists than Presbyterians Put the Laws in Execution against Dissenters was the Cry on the one side and the Dissenters oft in fits dragg'd to the Court Spiritual and a Lay-Chancellor having said I Admonish you I Admonish you I Admonish you away they were sent to the Devil On the other side Conformity was aggravated to the utmost and condemned as Anti-Christian Some have run from the noise of a Reader in the Church saying They heard the Devil And others refus'd to hear a Reverend Devine in a Meeting-House because he had by License preach'd in a Church I confess such Follies were not common I mention them as prodigious Effects of Controversies about Indifferent Things but yet by Persecution on the one hand and Exasperation on the other both sides did generally depart from the true Spirit of Christianity And if the printed Discourses on both sides be well considered and an Impartial Inquisitor were in search for Christians by our Saviour's Character By this shall all Men know that ye are my Disciples Job 13.35 if ye love one another How few had he found worthy the Christian Name If any thing which I have offer'd in the Following Discourse may tend to Restore Christianity among us to its Primitive Purity and to hasten its Promis'd Peace in the Christian World it will increase my Thankfulness to Him who gave me Being But whatever the Success of these Sheets may be I 'm sure they take a very all way to oppose Persecution and to Restore the Christian Spirit who endeavour to overthrow the Fundamentals of Christianity The Arians were at first profest Enemies to Persecution but as soon as they had Power proved the greatest Persecutors And Men worse than they in their Principles will not be better in their Practices whatever Moderation they may pretend And although my Saviour hath taught me That I ought not to call for fire from Heaven on those that will not receive Him Luk. 9.55 2 Pet. 2.1 Yet seeing the Apostle Peter having Prophecy'd of such who should bring in damnable Heresies in denying the Lord that bought them adds That they shall bring upon themselves swift destruction 'T is certainly dangerous to put Power into the Hands of Men of such Principles lest they involve the Government in their own Ruin I aim at no Man by this Reflection and I desire to Excuse no Man whom the Character will fit especially if they agree with the full Description of those dangerous Men Prophecy'd of by the Apostle Peter who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness 2 Pet. 2.10 and despise government having eyes full of Adultery and that can't cease from sin who while they promise Men Liberty are themselves the servants of corruption Certainly 't is every Christian's Duty to take the Advice of the Apostle Jude who describing the same Men exhorts us to contend earnestly for the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints Jude 3. The late Act therefore against Blaspheming does rather Promote than Disserve the Design of this Discourse And if this attempt may stir up the Spirits of others whose Parts and Qualifications are equal to such an Vndertaking to offer better Means to the same end In magnis voluisse sat est I shall greatly rejoice to be Confuted by Proposals of better Expedients For were the Peace of the Christian World Establisht on Foundation-Truths it would be with all the Sons of Peace without regard to their Lesser or Greater Eminency as it was with the Heavenly Host at their first Creation they will not envy each other their Degrees of Excellencies Job 38.7 but the Morning-Stars will sing together and all the Sons of God shout for Joy Books Printed for John Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultry A Free Discourse wherein the Doctrines which make for Tyranny are Display'd the Title of our Rightful and Lawful King William Vindicated and the Unreasonableness and Mischievous Tendency of the Odious Distinction of a King De Facto and De Jure Discover'd By the Honourable Sir Robert Howard Oct. An Effort against Biggotry and for Christian Catholicism By Henry Chandler Quarto Remarks on a late Discourse of William Lord Bishop of Derry concerning the Inventions of Men in the Worship of God With a Vindication of the Remarks from what is Objected against them in his Lordships Admonition By J. Boyse Octavo A Preservative against Deism shewing the Great Advantage of Revelation above Reason in the two great Points Pardon of Sin and a Future State of Happiness With an Appendix in Answer to a Letter of A. W. against Revealed Religion in the Oracles of Reason By Nath. Taylor Octavo Mr. Woodhouse Mr. Shower Mr. Williams Mr. Alsop and Mr. Calamy's Sermons Preach'd to the Societies for Reformation of Manners in the City of London Octavo Catholicism WITHOUT POPERY An ESSAY to Render the Church of England a Means and a Pattern of Union to the Christian World NO Arguments against the Protestant Religion have been Improved with equal success to those which are drawn from the Unity of the Roman Church and the Innumerable Divisions among Protestants and although each Point in Controversie between us and Rome hath been so discussed as to set the Truth of the Protestant Cause in the clearest Light yet the Popish Dragoons and the Protestant Divisions still pervert the World 'T is true that there is no Argument in Dragooning and I hope it will appear in a short time that there is as little in the other Topick yet the same Men who scarce know how to submit their Senses to Transubstantiation are by those very Senses induced to Popery while they see Divisions or feel Dragooning The last of these Popish Arguments is not to be Confuted by a Pen in its Practice and needs no Confutation in the Theory being not Defensible otherwise than by main force But the former requires most Serious Consideration not so much to evince that nothing can be concluded from those Divisions against the Truth of Protestant Religion as to take away the very Topick it self The great and substantial Division of England is taken to be into Church-Men and Dissenters and again Church-Men are subdivided into High Church and Low Church and many will be called Church-Men who are indeed of no Church and these last having nothing but the Name are not the Subjects of Christian Vnity But yet nevertheless through the Iniquity of the late Reigns the best mark of a Church-Man was never to come to Prayers and the most scandalous Life the surest Evidence of a true Son of the Church All Sober Men were called Presbyterians and no Man was supposed able to observe his Baptismal Vow and the Oath of Allegiance both together as if in this Sense it were impossible to serve God and Mammon This and some other things seem to have put the true Notion of the Church of England out of Mens